Posted on 05/28/2005 6:08:46 PM PDT by Nov3
From last week: Mixed Safety Results on Cholesterol Drug Crestor is Rosuvastatin. In case you refuse to refuse to register with the NY Times, enter the Times' URL into bugmenot.com .
Now I wonder if it was the thyroid difficiency that caused the change in my cholesterol levels.
Wonder no more. It is. Check the results of a Google of hypothyroidism and hypercholesterolemia.
I have hypothyroidism and take thyroid to help my low thyroid count.
Does this mean my risk is lowered or the same since my thyroid still doesn't produce like ti should even though I am getting supplemented?
Thank goodness I am only 22.
If you have a bad doctor.
I had several tests, and I am only borderline hypothyroid.
Is levoxyl the same as TSH?
er, TH?
I never really got a scary speech.
I am only borderline hypothyroid and the only symptoms I really ever have if sometimes maybe being a bit tired if I miss a pill, and even that is not very obvious so I am not sure if it is a symptom.
But, I am glad I got my doc to check me out. He ran several tests and found I was underactive.
What is bad though is that I forget my meds sometimes. My mother freaks out when she hears that, and I really shouldn't be forgetting these pills.
Oh, the one symptom that I had was rapid weight gain, and that is what made me run to the doc.
But, that was it.
It is still NOT good that I miss my medicine as much as I do. I need my doc to give me the doomsday speech so I will take it more seriously.
Since my Levoxyl is supposed to be taken on an empty stomach, I have had to set my alarm clock one hour earlier than usual so that I can take it before breakfast. That has helped me to remember. (And just in case, I have taped a "MEDS????" sign to the door to the garage. LOL)
That is why this stuff is an art, an major art. It requires a fresh perspective with each individual.
You know when a screw consistently shears an engineer can definitely tell something is wrong. When a patient is saying he feels lousy in the face of a number that says he is fine, a doctor is faced with a hard decision. One I am glad I don't make. Good luck.
Though "thoroughly discounted" (by the TSH!) the Barnes Basal Metabolism test (along with resting pulse and blood pressure) will tell you if your body is reacting to the thyroid medicine. The books I listed above are interesting reading and fly in the face of modern measurable science, something I don't like. Still the doctors present very interesting facts.
Also on the T3 I have read 8 times though I don't know where. As stated in one of the articles above free T3 is the hormone that has the main effect on cholesterol, depression, and cardio function and from what I have read the T4 levels can be sky high by the time you reach a therapeutic level of free T3 with a T4 only medicine. For some patients the free T3 levels can't be raised enough by T4 supplementation to be effective. The T4 and free T4 will be at the top of the spectrum and the free T3 will be at the bottom. The normal patient produces about 20% T3 and 80% T4. When given pure T4 some just can't convert it properly into T3 to get balanced levels and they should need to.
One question that I really can't get a clear answer on. Some sources say cortisol has the ability to downregulate the TSH independent of T3 and T4 levels. Are there any other hormones that do that? (Besides GH)
I don't know. I was looking for it on PubMed when I came across this article, which I thought you may be interested in reading, including its reference# 30. Go to it, and see if you can get it at PubMed. Then click on "Related Articles" at PubMed. I haven't read the whole article, and I became frustrated in its reference to MCR. I believe in means metabolic clearance rate.
Euthyroid Sick Syndrome: Is It a Misnomer?
If you're being treated by an internest, general or family practioner, ask for a referral to an endocrinologist. If you're being treated by an endocrinologist unsatisfactorily, go to a major teaching hospital that has fellowships for training endocrinologists who are up to date on the literature and testing methods. If you want to research about medicine, I would go to PubMed first. Sometimes you can link to free articles like this one. I've seen a lot of bogus crap about medicine on the net.
I have read it twice and am going back over it again tomorrow when I have time to do more research on the terms. It is very similar to a lot of the information in Langer's book. Like I said earlier this stuff is an art. There are so many feedback loops that vary from individual to individual that I am in awe that someone can grasp it all and all the details.
BTW after reading the article and some references I realized that a lot of my difficulties started after I was on a fairly high dose of prednisone 80mg - 150 lbs for a cornea transplant I underwent. I did not deal with the prednisone well and afterward to say my body crashed would be an understatement.
I agree with your assessment of web info. However it is a valuable tool when used widely.
ERRR wisely
Hi, Just a word. I have needed T3 after testing and was put on Cytomel. Cytomel is short acting and only last in the body for about 4 hours.
I use a time released T3. I get it from a compounding pharmacy... ITC Wellness and Compounding Pharmacy
Castle Rock, Co.
I had on going problems with Cytomel that the time released T3 corrected.
I also do not covert T4 into the end product T3 and have to take just T3.
Anyway...thought I would add this...hope it helps
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